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12 Jan 2015:
Sarah Kane’s debut play, Blasted, was first put on 20 years ago today. In this archive piece, written during the Edinburgh festival in 1998, she considers performance on the stage and the pitch

11 Jan 2015: Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 12 January 1915: That at the present time a small tortoiseshell butterfly should fly in through a window is unusual but not extraordinary

2 Jan 2015: Originally published in the Guardian on 2 January 1975: There is an element of forgiving and forgetting since both men were unexpectedly and very bemusedly involved in unpleasant political controversy at the height of their fame

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Historic articles from the Guardian archive, compiled by the Guardian research and information department (follow us on Twitter @guardianlibrary). For further coverage from the past, take a look at the Guardian & Observer digital archive, which contains every issue of both newspapers from their debut to 2000 - 1.2m items, fully searchable and viewable online